    Danish visit ... Jamie showing Louise Jensen and Signe Hansen from Danish consultancy and analysis firm Hausenberg around parts of the community garden. The Danish government have sent a delegation to the city to learn about urban gardening and how it can help with inner- city regeneration. Environmental consultants Signe Hansen and Louise Jensen visited Hulme Community Garden Centre and Debdale Eco Centre in Gorton during a two-day visit. Signe said: “We are looking at gardening projects involving housing and urban developments, promoting volunteering and tackling social exclusion, and how we can transfer these into a Danish context. This could be very inspiring for projects in Denmark and I think we can definitely learn from Manchester.”  HCGC goes mobile! Simply Health, a Manchester based healthcare company, have shown their commitment to improving the health of the local community by supporting Hulme Community Garden Centre. Simply Health, which was founded as a mutual society and grew out of the ‘Manchester & Salford Hospital Saturday Fund’ have been incredibly generous and donated over £20,000 to HCGC. In recognising the contribution HCGC makes to improving the wellbeing and health of local people: Simply Health have paid for the re-skinning of our polytunnels, a photo-voltaic array for our new Eco-Classroom and last but certainly not least a brand new van which has been converted to use LPG rather than conventional fuel. The LPG conversion makes our little van much better for the environment. By way of illustration: Compared to Petrol 75% Less carbon monoxide 85% Less hydrocarbons 40% Less oxides of nitrogen 87% Less ozone compared to Diesel 90% Less particulates, hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide 50% Less oxides of nitrogen It takes over 120 LPG cars to equal the fine particles produced by one equivalent diesel car! We want to say big thank you to Simply Health for supporting us. |
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